NQ written in red ink

This phase of NQ production finds us wandering from desk to desk, printout to printout, red pen in hand. The focus is on editing. Copyediting, which comes later, eliminates those typos and misused words that clutter the page and jar the eye. Editing tightens the prose, smooths out the textual wrinkles, and unifies the issue. It can't be too thorough. There's always something! Always.

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